Healthy Lifestyles

Healthy behaviours in childhood and the teenage years set patterns for later life and, if acquired early, can have a dramatic impact on well-being. Nearly a quarter of all reception-aged children and one third of Year 6 pupils are overweight or obese and it has been documented that inactivity causes nine per cent of premature mortality.

What can schools do?

Identify children who are the least-active, who are overweight or who are at risk of obesity and design targeted physical activity interventions specifically for them. The focus needs to be on enjoyment, so engage these pupils by offering a breadth of appealing activities that include plenty of exercise and promote wider health and well-being messages in a young people-centred environment.

Healthy Lifestyles

Sports Clubs

The New Forest District has a great variety of clubs for many different sports. These opportunities would not exist were it not for the dedicated group of people who run the variety of clubs that the New Forest District has to offer.

About

We hope that by inspiring young people to develop the habit to be physically active at a young age we can help them to be healthy, active and successful for the rest of their lives.

To help achieve this we provide a range of services for schools including training for school staff, coaching from expert coaches and a programme or exciting competitions, festivals and sports academies.